Donestock Store

In the course of our struggles and toils in the progress of our community, we are tested by the powerful drumbeat of general ills and a destitution of the spirit, which saps needed energy for a cause greater than ourselves. Long years of constant demoralization of our metal fiber has left us today, my friends, with the greatest of challenges: the sustainability of our home and the march forward, always forward, to a tomorrow better and with us as mortals in this place, this time, finding reason for our being, resolving to end the bitterness and complacency of 250,000's of us. The greatness of the coming days cannot be built on solid soil without the grief of our labors in this moment. The hour is approaching for us to make decisions as fine as silk and as strong as steel glistening brightly, advancing the cause of our progress, and the union of the old and the new. This election in 2009 will bring forth many trials which seek to sap us of our will to see this through to the end and victory. The recriminations and barriers constructed in our path cannot be easily overcome. To bring to an end the utter domination of the political system as we have accepted and known in Northwest Queens to one party or the other, and offering a new way ahead through this unity of purpose between the elected official and the issues which bind together the citizens forming links that over time will not be broken or damaged. Our endeavor to reshape the nature of the relationship between your servant in government and the community may ultimately inspire similar movements in all quarters. Our charge is to make this election a glimpse into the world of the possible. Complaints not backed by fortitude and fidelity can only lead to despair among the greater, and in the end weaken the land of the lesser, for it is the lesser part of our nature to seek fault where there is none; to blame rather than console and walk hand-in-hand until we have removed the dark cloud of negativity tying the immovable bureaucratic institutions to elected politicians working for the benefit of the few and ultimately for the one, and finally the small cadre of enablers and town criers, spreading more negativity with dour predictions. My friends, my candidacy is about the honor I feel when people who support this idea loan me the strength to go to a higher level, and where I can in the unfolding events hope to contribute my ideas to you, creating a team and a mission that, when preparations are careful and true, and when all are seeing this same object off in the distance, then, and only then, will the stiffening winds of change blow through with the freshest of air and a renewed sense of our connection to our neighbor, one that can catapult the positive light to touch all who come in contact with it. I ask you, if not for me than for yourselves, to leave the despair and drudgery and bitter complaining behind to the ash heap of days gone by to a new era of an interactive community open to all where roles and responsibilities are paramount, and the preservation of the clean and the order and the right trump the natural inclinations of those in control at the present time to continue along the same route they are so familiar with. I implore you again: life has many roads to travel; some are safe, meaning the known entity, some are unsafe, meaning the unknown entity, and some are unknown, meaning that it is up to us to reveal the destiny that awaits us on the other side. Join with me on this odyssey of the possible and we may find a path to victory in the election, but, most importantly, a victory for the people, the thousands of our citizens, who took the fateful step and determined to vote for an unaligned independent candidate in our City Council Election.